World of Warcraft: Shadowlands big pre-expansion event is live on the test servers and it opened large zombie plague on players, turning Azeroth’s capital cities into undead wastelands, causing utter chaos. This devasting, massive event brings back the World of Warcraft zombie plague, which will hit live servers later this year.
The World of Warcraft zombie plague sees hundreds, if not thousands of zombies stumble along in the streets of capital cities. These World of Warcraft zombies devour NPCs, including those who offer quests, and turns them into the undead.
It cycles this time instead of being up all the time. Players can only become zombies via NPCs for a bit every couple of hours, but if they want to keep the zombie train rolling during the down time, they can via player actions.
— Jeremy Feasel (@Muffinus) August 12, 2020
Players who get within arm’s reach can also be infected, giving them special zom-bilities and letting them attack other players to spread the infection. Naturally, Azeroth is in utter chaos. Blizzard tests upcoming changes to the game, like the upcoming level cap squish (max level players will now only be level 50, with the new level cap being 60 when Shadowlands releases) and the overhauled new player experience. But, sometime later this fall, this event will launch on live servers—and if it’s anything like what’s happening now, it’ll be a bloodbath. Game designer Jeremy Feasel has revealed the event won’t be active all the time when it hits live servers. The zombie invasion portion of the event will only be active for a few hours throughout the day rather than all the time.